Today in the lecture we talked about pace of the narrative and bringing out emotional responses. One thing I liked was Jason repeatedly told us not to make a "and then" story – which I think can actually be really challenging, but a great lesson and goal to work towards, having pace in our narritave, and an emotional response from the audience as the narritave goes on is something I'd really like to focus on for this project.

In class Louie and I also worked on getting our mood board together – something that was really fun to collaborate on. We could bounce visual ideas off each other and found that we actually both have really similar taste and vision for the direction of the visual style of the project.

I started researching the giving tree after class based on the emotional narritaves. I asked my family what they thought of a story of a tree growing old as a narritave for life. They liked it and said it reminded them of the giving tree, which I've since found out isn't really a New Zealand children book – but there are apparently adaptations to the story. If you haven't read it, there's a great YouTube video online. It basically shows how the older the boy gets the less he cares about the tree – until one day when he's very old and all he wants to do is sit, the tree is a stump and he appreciates the little things.